Plan for Tim Gift
by Tim Gift · 12/30/2000 (10:35 am) · 4 comments
Since leaving Dynamix, I've mainly been working on building this site, along with Rick. Now that it is live (end of Nov.), things have slowed down a little. Rick and I have been fixing bugs, adding a few minor features here and there. We actually have a large list of new features to add, but most of them only make sense when the traffic picks up.
I did start working on a finger server which grabs the latest plan out of the resource database. I have it running and working on my development machine (Windows 2000/Cygwin) and will probably port it over to our server (Linux) next week. Right now it takes either the login name or the developer id so:
finger jmarkcb@garagegames.com
finger 928@garagegames.com
would both return the same thing. Rick and I have been discussing whether to use login names, developer id's or some other identification method. The only reason for not using login id's would be security. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Otherwise, I've been taking a little time off during the holidays and playing a little with a relatively new interpreted language called Ruby. It has some very interesting features. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it, but I find it fun to play with :)
I did start working on a finger server which grabs the latest plan out of the resource database. I have it running and working on my development machine (Windows 2000/Cygwin) and will probably port it over to our server (Linux) next week. Right now it takes either the login name or the developer id so:
finger jmarkcb@garagegames.com
finger 928@garagegames.com
would both return the same thing. Rick and I have been discussing whether to use login names, developer id's or some other identification method. The only reason for not using login id's would be security. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Otherwise, I've been taking a little time off during the holidays and playing a little with a relatively new interpreted language called Ruby. It has some very interesting features. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it, but I find it fun to play with :)
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#2
The area of the site that interest me the most is the resource section :) A couple of new features related to resources: A way of saving and organizing resource links into named collections. Maybe some way of exporting these collections for other developers. Another is the ability to store resource searches. Your home page would then display all new resources, posted since you last logged in, that match your saved searches. In this way you could search the resource database once, save the search, and get notified if anything new along that topic is posted.
12/31/2000 (3:12 pm)
Finger is a program that will return user information about an account on a remote machine, it will also return the contents of the .plan file (a plain text file), if it exists in the account's home directory (normally an account on a Unix system). The file is actually named .plan, the preceding period simply keeps the file from normally being listed, sort of like the Windows hidden file attribute. A number game developers update their .plan files on a regular basis, and several game news and fan sites track these plan files (such as www.bluesnews.com) using the finger protocol.The area of the site that interest me the most is the resource section :) A couple of new features related to resources: A way of saving and organizing resource links into named collections. Maybe some way of exporting these collections for other developers. Another is the ability to store resource searches. Your home page would then display all new resources, posted since you last logged in, that match your saved searches. In this way you could search the resource database once, save the search, and get notified if anything new along that topic is posted.
#3
03/28/2001 (7:27 pm)
Testing some php code....
#4
03/28/2001 (7:35 pm)
Testing again... 
Alexander McAndrew
What kind of features are you thinking of adding? I really like what youve done so far with the site. Unfortunately for me many features I wanted to add to my site, so either I won't add them or I'll modify/improve them (see my .plan).
I think that login IDs would be good, however I don't get what this finger server is... Can you explain?